Anyone else like engineering drawings? I’d hesitate to call them art but there’s a certain aesthetic appeal to a nicely ordered and dimensioned drawing. This is the MK5 E3D heat sink with cut aways for the 3mm and 1.75mm versions.
I find architectural drawings very beautiful.
I love dimension drawings!
I do this for a living it’s all good fun until the checker bleeds all over it.
This ones mostly readable. I’d have that 2.20 dimension for the fin gap in so it’s not over the leader lines.
By the way which light saber does this go to?
If this is your print what software did you make it in?
It sure is pretty, but I just realized that it is shaded! Not sure what to think of that…
I wouldn’t hesitate to call them art.
Engineering drawings are definitely art.
@Dwayne_Knight_Dark_C this would be part of a hotend for a printer nozzle.
an e3d one if I’m not mistaken.
I noticed it when you posted it in @Sanjay_Mortimer 's topic. Shading should not be used if we were to follow the “strict rules” of engineering drawings, but it does add a little something, IMHO it enhances readability for people not accustomed reading technical drawings/blueprints.
I’m guessing this was done in Rhinoceros 3D?
@Dwayne_Knight_Dark_C I was taught drafting at uni but that was many many years ago. This is very much the work of an amateur 
@Normand_Chamberland assumes correctly it was modelled in Rhinoceros 5.0.
@Joseph_Chiu I did produce a flat unshaded version but the shading beneath the fins is very pleasing and it doesn’t detract from the readability of the dimensions so I left it on.
Why can I only like this once!? Can we use these please? I will pay you in krakens!
@Sanjay_Mortimer of course! it’s your heatsink design mate
@Dwayne_Knight_Dark_C , um kind of torn as well. I create and check drawings at work, but there is a certain aesthetic to prints. It took everything in me to not start checking the drawing, ugh. @Tim_Rastall , glad you made models for that hot end, as I’m going to borrow it. Shockingly, I can’t find non stl models of gt2 pulleys, and getting dimensions is harder than I imagined. Cool drawing. And cool hot end @Sanjay_Mortimer
Nice! I’d like to see a nozzle cut as well.
Me too! Nozzle, any other remaining part…
Great piece of technical art, btw
@Eric_Moy Sdp-si have 3d CAD downloads of a lot of their stuff. Including pulleys.
I checked them and misumi. I don’t think they had 20 tooth gt2
A little OT, but is there much difference between a v4 and v5 e3d?
It seems all of us who make such drawings for a living can’t help but critique them. It’s just a natural part of the process. They can have a certain aesthetic appeal, but it’s ruined as soon as one intentionally tries to make them pretty. OTOH, I’ve worked from drawings that had no appeal. They didn’t look good either.